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Combining GDI’s Marketing Tools with Social Media

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GDI gives you the marketing tools to build your business and generate Income for Life. Social media allows you to take many of these tools one step further. Learn how you can combine GDI’s marketing tools with social media to share your business with new networks and build your downline.

Your Website and Social Sharing

Your website can be your ultimate marketing tool. It is the place you can share information about yourself, your business and how to get started with GDI. Building a functional site is key, but after that it’s all about how you share it. A great site doesn’t matter if no one is seeing it. That’s why it’s important to share your site on your social networks. You can simply add you site address to your profile information on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. You of course can also share your site in tweets and updates when you’ve got great content to share. Encourage more visitors and views to your site by adding a ShareThis button, giving anyone who visits your site the power to share it with a click of a button.

The Inviter and Facebook and Twitter

The Inviter is a great tool to share your website with your current contacts. If you’re a basic member, simply input the email addresses of people you would like to check out your page and learn more and GDI does the rest of the work for you. Ev

en better if you’re a premium member, the Inviter can grab email addresses right from your personal email account, allow you to decide which people you want to invite and send the emails out for you. When it comes to social networking, the Inviter can help you compose a post for Facebook or a tweet inviting everyone to check out your website, instantly.

Webinars, Videos and Social Media

GDI knows the power of video, which is why our 7 Minute Movie is a great way to market your opportunity. We also share many other videos from webinars to tutorials, you can find what you need in video form from GDI. If you find one of our videos helpful, why not share it? Click the “share” button at the bottom of any of our videos to share on Facebook, Twitter or wherever you like.

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Social Sharing

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Social media is designed for sharing, whether you’re sharing a news story, pictures, or you’re your location, there’s a site or an app to help you do that. That’s why social media is a perfect fit for affiliate marketing where you are always sharing your opportunity. Take advantage of social media and social sharing.

Facebook Sharing

Facebook has recently unveiled a new feature that allows you to quickly share status updates, photos and links that you or someone else has posted. When you share a great post or a good link, encourage people to click that little button to share it with their friends, giving your more exposure and more traffic. Likewise, don’t be afraid to share a great post by someone else. If you see something helpful, share it!

Share Button for WordPress

You see it at the end of every single one of our blog posts: it’s the ShareThis button. This is a WordPress plugin that you can easily add allowing others to share your content. When you install the plugin, it will automatically populate the Share This button at the bottom of each of your blog posts. With ShareThis, your visitors can easily link to and share you blog post on Facebook, Twitter, through email or any number of social bookmarking sites. It makes sharing easy and takes a few minutes to install and seconds to use.

Share Videos

Video is important to affiliate marketing as we’ve talked about here and here. So why not share your video you’ve spent time making. YouTube allows you to share videos simply with their share button. You can even easily embed videos to your website, just click share and an embed link will appear. You can share any video, so if you see a great webinar you want to share with your time, simply click share to get the short link.

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YouTube for Network Marketing

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What It’s Good For

YouTube is great for conveying your brand and business without words. YouTube can also literally show the face of your business to give potential team members an authentic feel and see who is behind your team. YouTube videos do not have to have a huge production. To share the message of your business opportunity simply share your story. Why did you join GDI? What success have you found? Answer these questions in your video.

How It’s Unique

NO WORDS! Blogs and articles are great, but some people just don’t have the time or desire to read, read, read! Since YouTube is an open platform, you also don’t have to be a professional director or editor for your work to fit in. Anything on YouTube has the potential of going viral because video is easy to share and quickly watch. Not many blog posts go wild. YouTube videos are also extremely easy to embed into just about anything including your GDI site.

Ways to Use It

Use YouTube to give your business opportunity a human face. Film and edit short videos offering education and marketing tips. You can even members of your downline to share their own in video form and share it on your website and YouTube page. You can share these video success stories on YouTube and Facebook and anywhere you can embed video.

People are more apt to watch a quick video than read a lengthy blog post, so give YouTube a try.